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Tft@ Pididldbldl WILLIAM TATE BRADLEY, 0F TROY, ALEAM.

. 10 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, l/VILLIAM T. BRAD- `Lui', a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, in the county of Pike and State of Alabama, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the -following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in means for connecting the meeting ends of. two railway rails.

In carrying out my invention it is my purpose to cut the confronting ends of two Aordinary railway rails horizontally and angular-ly from the top to the base of said rails whereby the angular end of one of the l'ails will ovcrlie the angular end of the of 4er rail anal to provide a chair member in the nature of a cuff designed to be arranged upon the rails at the meeting ends thereof and to be secured to the meeting cnds,; whereby to effectively connect the ends.

It is a further object of the invention to produce a rail joint having lappingends whereby one of the rails at the end thereof will support the other rail, to provide a chair member which is designed to be arranged upon one of the railsat the end thereof and to be moved over the other rail to lap both ofthe rails, and to pass through the sides of the chair and through the Webs of the rail staggered connecting elements, certain of the said openings receiving the said elements being elongated. in a .horizontal direction whereby to permit of the eX- pansion and contractionof the rails and at the same time aid the chair member in supporting the rail ends, and whereby the said rai] Vends will be prevented from movement in aI vertical or tiltino direction.

It s a still further object of the invention to produce a r'iiil joint which shall be of an extremely simple construction, cheap to manufacture and 'which will eectively and securely support the meeting ends of the rails.. l

With the above and other objects in view the improvement resides,` in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following s eciiication and falling Within the scope o the appended claim. j

In the drawing:

` Figure 1 is a perspective vicwllustrating n the application of the improvement,

Specification of Letters Patent.

RAIL-JOINT.

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l Application filed January 19, 1917. Serial No. 143,845.12.

Fie. 2 is a transverse sectional view a'- *P n 1. proximately on the line 2-2 or liig. l, and lii. 3 is a vertical lono'itudinal sectional o b a b L o view through the chair and the connecting bolts, the rails being shown in elevation.

Referring now to the drawing in detail,

the numerals land 2 designate two rails of the ordinary construction.

rails at the end thereof is from the top to the bottom thereof Wheretlie head of the rail lis projected beyond the base of the said rail and the base of the rail 2 is extended beyond the head of the rail. designed of the Each of these to engage one another -so that one said rails will have a tendency to support the other rail at the ends of rails. The rails are supported upon suitable ties 4, and the numeral 5 designates the joint chair member for 'the rail. ends. |lfhe joint chair includes a flat base 6 Which.` I'eceives the base of the rails l and 2 and angular sides 7-7 which have their inner faces shaped to conform to the sides of the rails, the said sides being received .in the fishing spaces of the rails. rfhe sides of the chair member are provided with stag gered elongated slots 9 `which register with similahly staggered openings 10 in the Webs of the rail. The slots are disposed horizontally and passing throughthe alining slots and openings in the chair member and rail arc the ordinary bolts 12 that are secured by the usual nuts 13. The edges of the joint chair are preferably notched whereby to receive spikes 14 thatenter the ties.

The joint chair, it will be noted, is in the nature of a cuff and in application the same is inserted over the end of one of the rails and moved longitudinally and inwardly of the said rail. When the second rail is brought to have its end receive the end of the first referred to rail, the cuff member or chair is moved outwardly to embracetlie referred to first mentioned rail, and thereafter the securing elements are passed transversely through the referred to slots in the sides of the chair and the Webs of the rails. After the nuts have been applied to the bolts the spikes are inserted through the notches in the edges of the chair as above set forth.

By arranging the slots longitudinally in i cut angularly Those angular ends of the rails are porting means for the rails but also permit ofthe expansion and contraction of the said rails.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

The herein described means for connecting the meeting ends of rails including two rails having their ends cut angularly from the head to the base thereof, whereby the base of one of the rails will be extended beyond the head thereof and the head of the other rail projected beyond the base thereof, said cut ends adapted to rest one upon the other, the Webs of the rails having staggered openings, a chair member including a of the rail, the sides of the chair having 20 horizontally disposed elongated staggered openings registering with the openings n the Webs of the rails, securing means passing through the said openings, ties upon which the rails and chair rest, and securing 25 elements passing 4 through notches in the edges of the chair-and enterlng the ties.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WILLIAM TATE BRADLEY. 

